[AXIS2-5973] How to remove the extra empty tag <soapenv:Header/> in soap fault envelop

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.9
• Component/s: transports
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: jian yang
• Created: 14/Nov/19 14:10
• Updated: 14/Nov/19 14:10

Description

After following uplift: 

• Axiom API current version 1.2.14 (Dec, 2012), uplifted to version in MVN Repository 1.2.22 (Jan, 2019)
• Apache Axis2 current version 1.6.3 (Jun, 2015), uplifted to version in MVN Repository 1.7.9 (Nov, 2018) 

we  found there is a extra empty tag <soapenv:Header/> in the soap fault envelop:

 

 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soapenv:Header/>

<soapenv:Body>
<soapenv:Fault>
<faultcode>soapenv:Client</faultcode>
<faultstring>FaultException</faultstring>
<detail>
...
</detail>
</soapenv:Fault>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

 

It is not a error as <soapenv:Header> is optional. But this extra empty tag failed many test cases and might impact customer as well.

 

Why this behavior changed to send such empty tag <soapenv:Header/> (comparing to 1.6.4)?

Is there some options for axis2 user to get rid of this extra <soapenv:Header/> if it is empty?

 

Regards,

Jian